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Andy Boyle

@andymboyle.bsky.social

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Chicago person. Nonfiction books with Penguin Random House. Journalism in Esquire, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Globe, elsewhere. Fiction in some hip spots. 2023 Hugh Holton award winner. Medium tall.

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · May 20

cool they made a condiment for when you've completely given the fuck up

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 1h

this one whips ass

When It Found Us

While returning from a nearby lake on a camping trip, a couple discovers their camp trashed—with a strange sparkling substance coating everything—and are forced to run when something unnatural give…

www.metastellar.com

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13h

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose.

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 14h

history also says eventually you will lose

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 14h

basically all of world history says if you’re throwing tear gas by schools and churches and grocery stores you’re the bad guys

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 15h

“it’s bright as fuck out here dude what the hell”

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 15h

let him out on the roof deck earlier after he screamed at the door and he immediately was like “ah fuck this sucks”

A fluffy, gorgeous cat stands on a wood deck. Behind him are some deck chairs, a table, and a hint of the blue sky.

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 20h

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 1d

never doubted the bears for a second (went to bed while they were losing in the fourth)

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 1d

did you go

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 1d

evergreen

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 1d

learning a lot of you don’t know what topo chico is and I’m sorry you don’t know what absolute joy is

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 1d

feel like I’m doing pretty good because I can have a topo chico (in a GLASS bottle) almost whenever I want. what more do you need from life

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

NFL is kind of cool this year, every team sucks at least a little bit

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 1d

actual lol

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 1d

recently read JURASSIC PARK and it still whips absolute ass, and I keep thinking as I get older somehow it won’t?? and yet. it whips colossal ass.

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 1d

I mean this isn’t unhinged I guess but goddamn I’ve sure read a bunch this year

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 1d

lots of bad novels should’ve stayed really good novellas/short stories

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 1d

was going to post something mean and doom-filled but instead? I went and had some cheez-its. fuckin fixed everything right quick

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 1d

okay, I’ll bite: what’s JavaScript

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 1d

show me how

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 2d

already have! 🫡

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 2d

very rude

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 2d

might could

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 2d

no way to find out if it’s open or closed unfortunately. schrodinger’s Y

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 2d

I may make do with a nice forested area :)